1748 : Facta et dicta memorabilia (books 8-9)
Number
1748
Shelf Marks
- Jena, ThULB, El fol 88
Owners before c.1550
- Fam. Nassau
- Hendrik III of Nassau
- Elector of Saxony (gift 1538)
Commissioners
/
Country
Germany
Ownership Category
Public
Origin
-
Place
- Region : Hainaut
- Details : Hainaut + France
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Date
- Date details : c.1450-1475
- Half centuries : 1450-1499
- Decade : 1460 - 1469
Physical description
Measurements
- 155 leaves
- Size categories of height : 350-374 mm
- Height of text blocks : 360 mm
- Width of text blocks : 270 mm
Illustrations
- Total number of illustrations : 2
- Number of miniatures : 2
- Number of historiated initials :
- Number of grisailles :
- Number of drawings :
Miniaturists
- Simon Marmion
- other hand
Material
Parchment
Contemporary Bindings
Content
Genre
didactic
Authors
- Valerius Maximus
Translators
- Nicolas de Gonesse
Contents
- 1 : Facta et dicta memorabilia (books 8-9)
Languages
- French
Bibliography
Leonardo Olschki, Manuscrits français à peintures des bibliothèques d’Allemagne, Geneva 1932, pl. 32 (5 ill.)
Léon Delaissé, La miniature flamande. Le mécénat de Philippe le Bon, exhib. cat., Brussels-Amsterdam 1959 [also published in Dutch: De gouden eeuw der Vlaamse miniatuur. Het mecenaat van Filips de Goede, 1445-1475, Brussels-Amsterdam 1959], no. 062, Marmion, text c.1400
Georges Dogaer, Flemish Miniature Painting in the 15th and 16th centuries, Amsterdam 1987: M St Bertin Altar
Hanno Wijsman, Luxury Bound. Illustrated Manuscript Production and Noble and Princely Book Ownership in the Burgundian Netherlands (1400-1550), (Burgundica, xvi), Turnhout (Brepols), 2010, p.460-461
Hans Lülfing & Hans-Erich Teitge, Handschriften und alte Drucke: Kostbarkeiten aus Bibliotheken der DDR, Wiesbaden 1981, p. 192a (ill. f.76v)
Walther Dexel, Untersuchungen über die französischen illuminierten Handschriften der Jenaer Universitätsbibliothek vom Ende des 14. bis zur Mitte des 15. Jahrhunderts (Zur Kunstgeschichte des Auslandes, 115), Strasbourg 1917, no. 06
Online Informations and images
Digital facsimile: http://archive.thulb.uni-jena.de/hisbest/receive/HisBest_cbu_00016618